NEW YORK, POLITICS, 1907-1946]. SAXE, JOHN GODFREY (1877-1952). An extensive archive documenting the long and active political career of this eminent New York jurist, State Senator, supporter of reform legislation and expert on election law. The archive comprises letters, documents, telegrams, typescripts, ephemera, clippings, political buttons, etc. All tipped into 6 large scrapbooks. 6 vols., 4to, 283 x 215 mm. (11 x 8½ in.), uniform red cloth over boards, each cover with gilt facsimile signature of Saxe, spines with gilt-lettered morocco labels, detailed typewritten index at front of each volume. An exceptionally rich and interesting archive, with a careful, detailed index, recording a panorama of New York city politics in the first half of the century and amply documenting Saxe's wide circle of acquaintances in the realms of law, politics and education during this eventful period. CONTENTS: Letters, incoming : approximately 552 TLS and ALS to Saxe from Franklin D. Roosevelt (12 TLS as President on White House stationery, 7 TLS as Governor, 2 others), Governors Thomas E. Dewey, John A. Dix (5), Herbert Lehman (10), Alfred E. Smith (9), and others; Robert F. Wagner (7), Arthur Brisbane, Nicholas Murray Butler (9), Benjamin N. Cardozo, Carrie Chapman Catt, James A. Farley (8), Charles Evans Hughes (5), Robert Underwood Johnson, Frederick P. Keppel, Ralph Pulitzer, Charles M. Schwab Elihu Root (3), Sam Snead, Harlan F. Stone, Henry W. Taft (5), O.G. Villard (3), and many others. Letters, outgoing : approximately 268 carbon typescript letters from Saxe to a wide variety of individuals, paired with their replies (if any). Cartoons, clipped : approximately 225 political cartoons, from a wide variety of newspapers and journals, some hostile, others favorable in tone, concerning Tammany Hall, election reform, the bench, New York city, state and national politics. Ephemera : 42 printed notices, programs, announcements, invitations and commemorative menus, for dinners, fund-raising events, reunions, inaugurations, convocations, including: Tammany Hall Speakers' Bureau Reunion Dinner, 1909, Inauguration of Governor Dix, Song-Book for Occasional Thinkers, Reception for the King and Queen of England (1939), 75th Anniversary of the Manhattan Club, James A. Foley seating list, etc. Many are elaborately printed decorative multi-page brochures, some are no doubt unique survivals. Also included: a New York elector's ticket for the 1937 election SIGNED BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, with accompanying letter from the Secretary of State explaining that the President "has honored the electors of New York by autographing their ballot and only theirs. Vice President Garner has also autographed his..." John Godfrey Saxe, a grandson of the noted Vermont poet, attended McGill University and Columbia Law School. Admitted to the Bar in 1900, he enjoyed a long, remarkably varied legal career. A lifelong Democrat, Saxe served as a State Senator in 1911 and 1912; as counsel to the Governor in 1913-1914, chaired the law committee of the Democratic State Committee and became an expert on New York's intricate election statutes. He published a widely used Manual of Elections and had a role in the introduction of voting machines in New York in 1926. He supported the Civil Practice Code in 1920, was a member of the New York City Charter Revision Commission, and in 1937 brought suit to alter the mode by which NY City Councilmen were elected. In 1925 he was appointed by Nicholas Murray Butler to the post of general counsel of Columbia University. (6)
NEW YORK, POLITICS, 1907-1946]. SAXE, JOHN GODFREY (1877-1952). An extensive archive documenting the long and active political career of this eminent New York jurist, State Senator, supporter of reform legislation and expert on election law. The archive comprises letters, documents, telegrams, typescripts, ephemera, clippings, political buttons, etc. All tipped into 6 large scrapbooks. 6 vols., 4to, 283 x 215 mm. (11 x 8½ in.), uniform red cloth over boards, each cover with gilt facsimile signature of Saxe, spines with gilt-lettered morocco labels, detailed typewritten index at front of each volume. An exceptionally rich and interesting archive, with a careful, detailed index, recording a panorama of New York city politics in the first half of the century and amply documenting Saxe's wide circle of acquaintances in the realms of law, politics and education during this eventful period. CONTENTS: Letters, incoming : approximately 552 TLS and ALS to Saxe from Franklin D. Roosevelt (12 TLS as President on White House stationery, 7 TLS as Governor, 2 others), Governors Thomas E. Dewey, John A. Dix (5), Herbert Lehman (10), Alfred E. Smith (9), and others; Robert F. Wagner (7), Arthur Brisbane, Nicholas Murray Butler (9), Benjamin N. Cardozo, Carrie Chapman Catt, James A. Farley (8), Charles Evans Hughes (5), Robert Underwood Johnson, Frederick P. Keppel, Ralph Pulitzer, Charles M. Schwab Elihu Root (3), Sam Snead, Harlan F. Stone, Henry W. Taft (5), O.G. Villard (3), and many others. Letters, outgoing : approximately 268 carbon typescript letters from Saxe to a wide variety of individuals, paired with their replies (if any). Cartoons, clipped : approximately 225 political cartoons, from a wide variety of newspapers and journals, some hostile, others favorable in tone, concerning Tammany Hall, election reform, the bench, New York city, state and national politics. Ephemera : 42 printed notices, programs, announcements, invitations and commemorative menus, for dinners, fund-raising events, reunions, inaugurations, convocations, including: Tammany Hall Speakers' Bureau Reunion Dinner, 1909, Inauguration of Governor Dix, Song-Book for Occasional Thinkers, Reception for the King and Queen of England (1939), 75th Anniversary of the Manhattan Club, James A. Foley seating list, etc. Many are elaborately printed decorative multi-page brochures, some are no doubt unique survivals. Also included: a New York elector's ticket for the 1937 election SIGNED BY FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, with accompanying letter from the Secretary of State explaining that the President "has honored the electors of New York by autographing their ballot and only theirs. Vice President Garner has also autographed his..." John Godfrey Saxe, a grandson of the noted Vermont poet, attended McGill University and Columbia Law School. Admitted to the Bar in 1900, he enjoyed a long, remarkably varied legal career. A lifelong Democrat, Saxe served as a State Senator in 1911 and 1912; as counsel to the Governor in 1913-1914, chaired the law committee of the Democratic State Committee and became an expert on New York's intricate election statutes. He published a widely used Manual of Elections and had a role in the introduction of voting machines in New York in 1926. He supported the Civil Practice Code in 1920, was a member of the New York City Charter Revision Commission, and in 1937 brought suit to alter the mode by which NY City Councilmen were elected. In 1925 he was appointed by Nicholas Murray Butler to the post of general counsel of Columbia University. (6)
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